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De lucernis antiquorum reconditis libb. sex : in quibus earum recens inventarum adhuc ardentium obseruationes multae primum afferuntur, aliorum opiniones omnes de ipsarum attributis dein expenduntur, earum causae, proprietates, differentiaeque singulae deinceps ex rei natura deteguntur, pluresque dubitationes e traditis emergentes demum eluuntur : explicatis diligenter abditissimis quaestionibus de ignium causis, origine, varietate, duratione, motu, & extinctu, de antiperistasi, fumo, cinere, lentore, mistis incombustibilibus, brutorum funeribus, & alijs naturae arcanis : declaratisque plurimis antiquitatis ritibus lychnos supra centum effigiantibus : cum indicibus locupletissimis

by: Liceti, Fortunio, 1577-1657

Publication date: 1652

Topics: Luminescence -- Early works to 1800, Lamps -- Early works to 1800, Lamps, Ancient

Publisher: Vtini : Ex typographia Nicolai Schiratti ; Prostant Patauij : Apud Franciscum Bolzettam

Collection: brigham_young_university; americana; byuspecialcollections

Contributor: Harold B. Lee Library

Language: Latin

[16], 3-4 p., 5-1280 columns, [28] p., [3] folded leaves of plates : 33 cm. (folded)

Signatures: [[cross]]² 2[cross]⁶ A-3I⁶ 3K⁴

Includes indexes

Title vignette

Head- and tail-pieces; initials; printed marginalia

Special t.p. "Registum: A B C ..." with printer's device on verso of last leaf

Errata: p. [27] at end